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Morrison and Jim Lee on WildCATs

 
  

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yawn - thing's buddy
12:18 / 01.11.06
LOL!

there used to be a youth theatre group in Glasgow called Wildcats . . .

by the early nineties they were defunct. or so I thought. perhaps they were reformatted - as a superteam comic . . .

could there be a link?
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
12:48 / 01.11.06
Did the Glasgow WildC.A.T.S. stage plays on 'important' issues? Did the 'C.A.T.S.' in their name stand for 'Community Action Theatre'?

'Hey kids, I'm Grifter, and my friend Spartan here is going to get a roleplay session going about how it's OK to be gay'.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
12:54 / 01.11.06
yeah, they did plays about 'rascist' binbags etc.

sorry. I'll stop now.
 
 
Feverfew
20:35 / 01.11.06
No, no, carry on, there's at least another month 'till the World Storm, unless I miss my guess...
 
 
ghadis
21:55 / 01.11.06
'The Wildstorm' is delayed due to underfunding...
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
17:24 / 02.11.06
MARCH?

What is this, Planetary?
 
 
Spaniel
18:36 / 02.11.06
I really can't be bothered to comment. It's fucking absurd.
 
 
Triplets
19:53 / 02.11.06
Hunger Break?
 
 
Spaniel
09:38 / 03.11.06
I'll probably need one to get through...
 
 
Triplets
17:54 / 04.11.06
More like "In-a-whilestorm!"
 
 
houdini
19:20 / 07.11.06
In terms of Grunt wanting to "do one", I seem to recall him penning a 3-part Spawn story backintheday (and it being significantly better than efforts from Messrs Moore & Miller).

I too remember "Wildcat". They were a spinoff from the recently defunct 7:84 Theatre company if I recall correctly.

I once saw them performing 'The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil'. Free ceilidh afterwards too.
 
 
The Falcon
19:38 / 07.11.06
To be fair, while Spawn does (ahem) tend to spawn career-lows, I'd say it's one of the few occasions when Grant has failed to outdo his hairy archnemesis, whose two issues (#9 and #37 if memory serves) are at least readable. I bought the trade with Morrison's Spawn, and I'm still a bit bitter, especially given there's a two-parter by letterer Tom Orzechowski rounds out the book, and is in fact better than Spawn v. Anti-Spawn.
 
 
advancedplastics
23:10 / 07.11.06
I don't think anyone has addressed this yet, but wtf is with the German during Grifter's fight?
I assume it's to give it fascist feel, make us think we're listening to Rammstein er whatever; but as far as I can tell, it looks like there's a stupid/glaring mistake: "Unt" should be "Und", right? Is there something I don't know about German, or am I right in wondering how they let a mistake like that through?
 
 
FinderWolf
13:35 / 26.11.06
I was just going to ask about the German myself, having re-read it recently. I thought it was supposed to give some ominous creepy badass feel to it - like evoking "Thus Sprach Zarathustra" or something like that. Like GRIFER IS DER FORCE OF NATURE!!! GRIFTER WILL KICKETH YOUR ARSE!! GRIFFTTERRR!!!! GRRRIIIIIIFFFTEERRR!!!!! HE IS DER UNSTOPPAAABLEEEE!!!!

Anyone?
 
 
FinderWolf
13:37 / 26.11.06
Maybe the Unt was give it a phonetic sense, since "Und" is pronunced with a hard d that sounds almost like a T at the end...?
 
 
John Octave
14:58 / 26.11.06
P'rhaps Grifter only knows the cool German words and can't be bothered to learn conjunctions.
 
 
sn00p
16:36 / 26.11.06
I assumed my confusion was due to never having read the WildCATS before and griffter was german, if he's not, that's just plain weird...
 
 
Axel Lambert
08:44 / 25.07.07
Has anybody heard any news about #2?
 
 
alexsheers
11:36 / 25.02.08
From Newsarama - Jim Lee at the WonderCon '08 Wildstorm panel:

Asked about Wildcats, Lee said that he has the second script from Grant Morrison, but Wildstorm will not solicit it until there are several issues ready to go. The story should run six issues long. “At this point there’s no way to make amends,” Lee said, “All we can do it make sure than when it does ship, it’s the best story it can be.”

Lee added that the story is now out of continuity, and takes place before the events which are currently happening with the Wildcats in the present-day Wildstorm Universe.
 
 
Evil Scientist
13:24 / 25.02.08
Methinks Christos Gage'll be taking the reins of WildCATS then.
 
 
The Natural Way
17:08 / 25.02.08
Good. Personally, I have little to interest in the Wildstorm universe. It's so, err, crap. It doesn't contain Batmites or super-hounds or anything NOT RUBBISH.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
17:31 / 25.02.08
I'M SO VERY EXCITED THAT GRANT IS BACK TO WRITING WILDC.A.T.S!!!
 
 
FinderWolf
13:34 / 24.04.08
moreso, from a Newsrama article about Christos Gage today:

>> CG: Judging from what Jim Lee has said recently, I believe that series--which is planned to be completed as a six-issue miniseries--is no longer in continuity. I think it's basically "All-Star Wildcats" now. But you'd have to check with Jim to be sure.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:37 / 24.04.08
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT IT IS IN CONTINUITY!
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
22:10 / 24.04.08
Yup, that's not an easy target whatsoever...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:49 / 24.04.08
TO GRIFTER, ALL TARGETS ARE EASY, BECAUSE HE IS A DEAD SHOT.
 
 
Mario
14:48 / 29.04.08
Haus: I don't think even DC knows what's in continuity in the Wildstorm U anymore.
 
 
Triplets
21:45 / 29.04.08
Taking the piss.
 
  

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